The performance, part of the ensembles' spring concert tour, is being sponsored by the Berea College Music Department. The event is free and open to the public.

The Chorale, Butler’s most select choral ensemble, features a local Berea student. Todd Bolster, son of Steve and Sandy Bolster and a 2001 graduate of Madison Southern High School, sings bass in the choir.

Under the direction of Dr. Eric Stark, the ensembles will present works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary style periods in a concert of approximately 90 minutes in length. Works performed will include Palestrina's "Sicut Cervus," Bach's motet "Lobet denn Herrn," excerpts from Haydn's "The Seasons," and Rachmaninoff's "All Night Vigil (Vespers)," sung in church Slavonic. Also included in the performance will be Stephen Chatman's evocative setting of four poems for a cappella choir with oboe accompaniment entitled "There Is Sweet Music Here." The Butler Madrigal Singers will present a cappella selections in English, French, Italian, and German.

The Chorale and Madrigal Singers are from Butler's Jordan College of Fine Arts, a department of music which attracts students from the mid-west, the nation, and internationally. Offering degree programs in performance, music education, arts administration as well as graduate degrees in performance, history and composition, the JCFA music department boasts an extremely high success rate for students who go on to prestigious performance and administrative careers, as well as those who pursue further study at the world's leading conservatories. Butler is located in Indianapolis, the nation's eleventh-largest city, where it is home to five leading community based arts organizations: the Indianapolis Children's Choir, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Dance Kaleidoscope, and American Pianists Association.